Where To Start With Wonder Woman Comics?

Getting into Wonder Woman comics can be an immense challenge, though. It’s often unclear where to start, what the best Wonder Woman comics are, and how her complex mythology has transmogrified over time. Factor in her de factor Justice League adventures, and you’ve got yourself some DC continuity navigation ahead.

Below you’ll find the most straight forward Wonder Woman reading order I can manage. Enjoy the comics!

Wonder Woman’s Origins and Early Days

If you’re unfamiliar, the brilliant Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series) and iconic painter Alex Ross (Marvels, Uncle Sam) teamed up for a series of introductions to the essential essence of DC’s most iconic characters. The end results are gorgeous insights into DC’s finest, naturally including Wonder Woman. You’ll get a glimpse of her classic origins, as well as what makes Wonder Woman tick today in our world.

If you want the true beginning, DC’s Chronicles volumes do a nice job collecting the first Wonder Woman stories from William Moulton Marston in the early 1940’s. Marston himself is a fascinating figure (Grant Morrison’s Supergods provides a compelling overview), and his commitment to women in powerful, iconic roles of leadership is decadesahead of his time.

This is a purposefully unique retelling of Wonder Woman’s origins from Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette. If you’re familiar with other Earth One stories, such as Superman: Earth One, then you know these exist outside the confines of what would be considered the “main” DC Universe. You can read them on their own quite easily and quickly, and get another perspective on the character.

If you want to go all in on this era of Wonder Woman, you can check out the first 24 issues plus the first annual of Wonder Woman in this omnibus. Note that it will double up on those Gods and Mortals first six issues above.

Wonder Woman in the Early 2000’s

Unquestionably one of the finest JLA stories with Wonder Woman as the clear lead. Better yet, A League of One is a self-contained graphic novel, making it one of the easier Wonder Woman comics to pick up and read cold.

Wonder Woman Rebooted (2006 to 2011)

There are many Wonder Woman fans who will tell you this trade is quite aptly named, as creators Allan Heinberg and Terry Dodson don’t quite seem to know much about Wonder Woman either. Nonetheless, it marks the first six issues of a new, post Infinite Crisis Wonder Woman title.

Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chang’s Wonder Woman Run

Wonder Woman remained one of my favorite New 52 titles for the first 35 issues of Wonder Woman, with Azzarello and Chang delivering on all the most compelling elements of Greek myth at the center of Diana’s mythos.

In the spirit of the New 52, this is absolutely a departure from the George Perez era, but I found the changes compelling within the context of the story Azarello and Chang set out to tell.

DC Rebirth Wonder Woman Reading Order

Note that the first two volumes of Wonder Woman oscillate between odd and even numbered issues. The odd numbered issues form “The Lies,” while the even numbered issues offer a “Year One” story from Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott.

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